Luka Doncic has been compared to Dirk Nowitzki for several reasons, but Dirk thinks Doncic is even more advanced for his age. Nowitzki, 40, was drafted No. 9 overall in 1998 and traded to the Dallas Mavericks. He made the jump from Germany straight to the NBA and was already averaging 17.5 points per game in his second season as…

Nick Nurse understands why players would want to be in the Toronto Raptors starting lineup. From the first games of youth basketball, the “starting five” is one of the easiest ways to determine the best players, a sign of status. Your teammates stand and form a tunnel. You run down the middle,…

A manager from SB Nation, a network of sports blogs that continues to profit off the labor of unpaid and underpaid workers, recently told two writers who are still in high school that they could not be paid for their work because they are under the age of 18.Read more…

Just maybe, it was the injuries all along that were the chief reasons for the Ducks’ struggles. With their most complete lineup yet, the Ducks delivered their best performance of the season in a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Wednesday before 16,641 at Honda Center. Star center Ryan Getzlaf…